Head Off Trump IRS Cuts

For an agency that performs an invaluable service in ensuring through its tax collections that the Federal Government is adequately funded while at the same time providing billions of dollars in refunds to millions of taxpayers, the Internal Revenue Service takes an unaccountably bad rap.

That helps account for Congress’s propensity in recent years to sharply cut back funding for the agency, despite its being one that more than pays its own way, particularly when adequately staffed. If President Trump were an honest businessman, we would expect him to redress the situation by restoring some of the lost funds, or at the very least not subject it to further cuts.